For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...

This can be done with a knife made from metal or stone, but these are sharp, and often cut the hide. A better tool is made from the bones of the caribou itself. In the following series of photographs, ...

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...

This is from the dawn of civilisation in Britain when stone tools, some of increadable beauty like a leaf arrowhead or some like this simple utilitarian thumbnail scraper. I found it on a walk ...

For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...